Schools in Australia had these. My Dad was a Maths 1, Maths 2 and Physics teacher, who spent his free time on electronics. As such, he was chosen to be the Computer Class teacher. He bought a BBC Model B to use at home. Somehow we ended up with 2 of them but I don't know why 😀 As a young kid I used to get BBC Micro User magazine. Each copy had the BASIC code for a game printed in them for you to then type in yourself (learn to code and get a game out of it). I learned BBC BASIC and Assembly Language through this period. Learning to code resulted in a lifelong interest / hobby, me pursuing an ICT degree, and a subsequent 20+ year career in ICT. So from my perspective they achieved their aim. I also have at least half a dozen Raspberry Pi computers performing functions around the house.
This is awesome! In 1983 when I was 6, my dad bought an Acorn Electron and that was my introduction to computers and programing in BASIC. We had room fulls of Acorn BBC Micro's and Acorn Archimedes machines at our senior school as well. I moved onto the Atari ST after using the Acorn for about 8 years, and then jumped into PC gaming at college. It seems like Dr Wilson's work might be the major reason behind my interest in tech.
The BBC micro was the machine that really taught me how to program. I'd dabbled with a Sinclair Z80 - with all it's limitations, but it was really the BBC Micro that really opened my eyes to what computers could do and gave me my entire career 😀. The Raspberry Pi gave me back the ability to experiment and have fun 🤩 so thank you both🙏🏻
Schools in Australia had these. My Dad was a Maths 1, Maths 2 and Physics teacher, who spent his free time on electronics. As such, he was chosen to be the Computer Class teacher.
He bought a BBC Model B to use at home.
Somehow we ended up with 2 of them but I don't know why 😀
As a young kid I used to get BBC Micro User magazine. Each copy had the BASIC code for a game printed in them for you to then type in yourself (learn to code and get a game out of it).
I learned BBC BASIC and Assembly Language through this period.
Learning to code resulted in a lifelong interest / hobby, me pursuing an ICT degree, and a subsequent 20+ year career in ICT.
So from my perspective they achieved their aim.
I also have at least half a dozen Raspberry Pi computers performing functions around the house.
We had BBC Micro's in school. I wrote my first lines of code on that aged 13 or so. Great to hear these stories!
This is awesome! In 1983 when I was 6, my dad bought an Acorn Electron and that was my introduction to computers and programing in BASIC. We had room fulls of Acorn BBC Micro's and Acorn Archimedes machines at our senior school as well. I moved onto the Atari ST after using the Acorn for about 8 years, and then jumped into PC gaming at college. It seems like Dr Wilson's work might be the major reason behind my interest in tech.
The BBC micro was the machine that really taught me how to program. I'd dabbled with a Sinclair Z80 - with all it's limitations, but it was really the BBC Micro that really opened my eyes to what computers could do and gave me my entire career 😀. The Raspberry Pi gave me back the ability to experiment and have fun 🤩 so thank you both🙏🏻